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Linear's First-Party Data: AI Now Authors Just Under Half of All Issues, and Coding-Agent Teams Went From 21 to 65 Weekly PRs While Everyone Else Stayed Flat at 8-10
Linear published Edition 01 of its data report (Tim Qi, Head of Data), covering tens of thousands of teams and the transition from pre-AI to now. By August 2026 agents and MCP clients created roughly 2,435k issues per week against 2,481k from people and integrations, up from fewer than one in a thousand two years earlier; pull requests are up 111% over the June 2024 baseline, and teams using coding agents tripled weekly PRs from 21 to 65 while non-agent teams held flat at 8-10. The counter-intuitive result is that time spent on existing work did not shrink to make room, which Qi reads as Jevons paradox: teams are working more, not less. He explicitly caveats that PRs opened measure motion, not value.
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